The plane's toast, but most lived

July 8, 2013 |By AUBREY COHEN

Crashes that destroyed aircraft but killed few, or none

Aero Icarus, Wikimedia Commons

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Six years later, on Sept. 20, 1989, the captain of a US Airways Boeing 737-400 rejected takeoff from LaGuardia Airport, in New York, because of a righward drift, "bang" and rumbling noise. The captain was unable to stop the jet before it ran off the end of the runway, struck a wooden approach lighting pier and splashed into the East River. Just two of the 63 people aboard died.

Investigators found the rudder was mistrimmed, which the captain should have detected, and that the captain waited too long to take over from the first officer and reject takeoff.

Aero Icarus, Wikimedia Commons

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Six years later, on Sept. 20, 1989, the captain of a US Airways Boeing 737-400 rejected takeoff from LaGuardia Airport, in New York, because of a righward drift, "bang" and rumbling noise. The captain was unable to stop the jet before it ran off the end of the runway, struck a wooden approach lighting pier and splashed into the East River. Just two of the 63 people aboard died.

Investigators found the rudder was mistrimmed, which the captain should have detected, and that the captain waited too long to take over from the first officer and reject takeoff.